Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-10

The Methodists are holding a camp meeting
VI Parker, preachers from Mitchell, Madison,
Canton and many other towns being ia ct.
tendance.
Yankton expects 8 big pork and beef pack.
Ing este 0lishmeAt. Gen. Beadle has been in
Chicago Ia conference with parties in regard
to 1t.
The allotment Of lands In severalty to the
Indians Of the Sisseton reservation VIII make
business again lively at the Watertown Land
office.
The first through passenger train over the
Nebraska Southern and Lincoln extension Of
terminus, Sunday.
improvements have begun on the convent
building at Yankton, and within two years,
says tue Press ana Dakotaiu, a grand cathe-
dral will have been completed.
While John Sibley and his young son were
stetching wire for a fence about twelve miles
from Rapid City, the wagon was overturned
and the boy was crushed 10 death beneath 1T.
A grading outfit has arrived al Sioux Falls
to work on that end OF the VIII
mar aud Sioux Falls branch Of the Manitoba.
4 postofiae has been established at kinlass,
Walsh county, and Freedman q. SarvIce ap-
pointed postmaster. Charles T.. Hayden has
been appointed postmaster at Bangor, Wal
worth county, vice Newton II. Kingman, re-
signed.
Work on the Chicago aud Northwestern
extension west of Fauikton has been temper
III - 49,, o,ox.,, &c +ha c.ayoitv
Of iron. The track is now ironed to the Pot
ter county line, twenty-five miles west If
Fsulktoc.
Prof. p. a. Zeno, acting president OF the
VI. +. university, has arrived al Mitchell from
New York. The university has been desig-
mated to conduct n normal department under
now 10 the interest of Nebraska beckeepers 70
improve this opportunity and show the people
that 1t is a honey country.
Robert Gay, Of Highmore, an old gentle
man, and an old soldier, had an arm broken
near the shoulder yesterday by 9 reel rod Of a
harvester catching his clothes and throwing
him severely to the ground.
Bon Homme county farmers and real es
tate dealers purpose TO fill a car with the
choicest agricultural products OF that county
and take II to the territorial fair at Mitchell
for exhibition. after which II VIII he run east
TO the various state fairs.
st. Stephens Episcopal church at Casse..on
was dedicated Tuesday by Bishop Walker.
This church was erected, furnished complete
and given the society bv Gen. Cass, Of New
York city. II is the handsomest stone church
In north Dakota, and is In style of a,chitec.
ture old English Of the thirteenth century,
with a detached tower. The cost was IS, 500.
The police at Sioux Falls spotted and run
IN a book pcddler who WAS playing bis trade
without a license. A special tax on the dis
seminstion OF literature ana intelligence.
Wonder If the neWsboys OF the city OF the
silyery Sioux have to pay a license for els
seminating Intelligence! A Sioux Falls pa
per says there are a good many suckers
there that arc easily taken Ia by boOk ped
dlers and like vendors.
A good illustration Of the Dakota push IS
shown IN the case of Mrs. George II. Walsh,
OF Grand Forks, wife Of Hon. George II.
Walsh, the w~ell-kn0wn politician. This lady,
IL her husbands absence from home this sea.
son, has run the farm, hired all the help, put
, in and harvested 500 acres of grain OF splen-
work, including seed, etc, from the proceeds
Of the sale Of chickens, eggs, butter and vege-
| tables from the farm.
Passengers from ~Ircquois, eighteen miles
cast cf Hnynn rnnprt "A prpnE deal nf 4ypifp
ment there on the report that the Chicago
and Northwestern will build a connecting
link between Doland and Irtquois for the
sake OK annoying the Manitoba, which runs
six and q half miles north Of ~Iroquois. The
Manitoba's graders are already ia Beadle
county, ard their contract calls for the com-
| pletion OF the work by September %, so that
the troners can begin.
Saturday night at Broken Bow a maj By
the nsme OF johnson became Implicated In
q quarrel with q brothcr-in-law, and demand
| ed Of his wife his revolver, which she had HID
away from him, with which he said he would
kin the offending relative. Upon refusal by
his wife to be accorded possession OF the
deadly weapon he got angry ut her, and grab
bling q stick Of timber that lay close by,
| struck and hit her across the pit Of The stom.
| ach and then fed. She died IN a short time.
Chadron was thrown into great excitement
! over a shooting fair, which took place Sun
day evening NJ z O'Clock. Two men, bridge
workYuen, attempted an entrance into a house
occupied by John Bolts, a barber. Mr.. Bolts
not being az home, Mrs. Bolts told them to
keep out, but this they refused &c DO, and
upon their continuing to force an entrance In
to the house, she fred AT them with a a. cali
hre revolver and bit them both, the same ball
passing through both men In the neighbour
hood OF the groinS. The wounded Men were
taken TO DR.. Jackson's office and attended by
him. Sheriff Clark investigated the matter,
and ne and the public are of the opinion that
I, the lady was justified In shooting wo stran-
gers who attempted a forcible entrance into a
! private dwelling.
| Douglas Carlin, Of Pierre, was married TO a
Sioux Indian half.breed on Saturday, Aug.
w. One thousand Sioux Indians were pres.
cnt. The ceremony took place a. the Chey-
enne River agency sixty miles above Pierre.
The feast followed and consisted o. ten oxen
! roasted whole and 100 dogs boiled into SOUP.
The latter was not sampled by the whites.
The presents made from the father were SOC